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An Orlando woman told investigators that four men stormed into her apartment last week claiming they were the police, and then robbed her at gunpoint. The woman told police she was sleeping early Saturday morning in her apartment at the Villas at Pine Crest on South Semoran Boulevard when she heard a hard knock on her front door. According to a report released Wednesday, the woman asked who was at the door, and someone replied in Spanish that it was "the police. " She opened the door and the men shoved a police badge in her face.

The gunman accused of chasing and killing a 21-year-old man at a west Orlando apartment complex on Thursday told police he was pursuing a suspected burglar and acted in self-defense after he was attacked. A police account of the shooter's self-defense claim obtained by the Orlando Sentinel suggests this could be the latest local homicide in which the state's controversial "stand your ground" law becomes a factor. Police were called to the shooting just before noon Thursday at the Fountains at MetroWest apartments.

(Reuters) - More than 200 marijuana plants were found at the rented Central Florida home of a former Georgia bank director captured this week after vanishing for 18 months under suspicion of embezzling $21 million, authorities said on Friday. The Marion County Sheriff's Department discovered the plants on Wednesday at a mobile home rented by Aubrey Lee Price, 47, in Ocaladepartment spokesman James Pogue told Reuters. A day earlier, Price, a former director of Montgomery Bank & Trust, a small bank in Ailey, Georgia, was arrested near Brunswick, Georgia, when authorities noticed his pickup truck windows appeared to be tinted too darkly to comply with state law. Price had disappeared more than a year earlier, just before he was indicted in Georgia in July 2012 on one count of bank fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

An Orange County Public Schools worker accused of downloading child pornography and arrested on Wednesday told investigators depression had triggered his "curiosity" in the illicit images, a police report states. Apopka police began investigating James Giles this summer, after detecting that he'd been sharing dozens of videos depicting graphic sexual activity by children as young as three or four years old, the report says. In an interview with investigators, Giles admitted that he had been downloading child pornography since 2005.

Police at the University of Central Florida are investigating two reports of a flasher on campus, according to an emergency alert sent to students and staff Friday afternoon. In one report, a female student said a man drove up next to her in a parking lot near the Academic Village housing community. She said the man asked her for direction to Lake Claire but when she noticed that the man wasn't wearing pants, she walked away. Another female student had a similar story. She said the man called her over to his car as she was walking through a parking lot near the Health and Public Affairs building.

An Ocoee man was jailed Thursday after Lady Lake police suspected he made a fake bomb threat to a restaurant in order to get his waitress girlfriend out of work. Anthony Nason Borrell, 28, is accused of using a gas station pay phone Sunday afternoon to make the threat to Gator's Dockside at 1004 Main St. in an effort to get his girlfriend to attend a family meal, according to police. The manager who took the call said a man threatened he'd placed a "timed bomb" in the restaurant and the caller hoped management had "time to get everyone out," according to a police report.

Two men remained on the loose Tuesday after busting into an apartment and holding three people at gunpoint late Monday, Orlando Police said. Theron Luke, 21, was shot twice in the home invasion robbery, police said. Two women inside the apartment — Audrey Smith and Gabrielle Osborne, both 19 — were not hurt, police said. All three were roommates, according to the police report. Luke told police that two men forced their way into the apartment in the 4700 block of Walden Circle shortly before 11:30 p.m. Monday.

Residents at Hollowbrook Apartments went without water for nearly nine hours Wednesday when a stolen car crashed into its water main while evading police. That's about 225 customers whose water was shut off until crews could make repairs, Orlando Utilities Commission spokeswoman Erika Hodges said. The thief — who Orlando police did not name — suffered a head injury, and was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center. The stolen Honda Accord ran into the complex's concrete entrance and water main shortly after 2:30 a.m., flooding the streets with water.

A Craigslist meet-up ended in a robbery Tuesday night when a man pointed a gun at a woman, took $1,800 and said "just drive away, and no one gets hurt. " Orlando Police later charged 30-year-old Christian Michael Roldan with armed robbery. Other charges — including possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia and grand theft — are pending. Tatyana Igoreyevna Sidorenkova, 22, made plans to buy gift cards from Roldan through a Craigslist advertisement. The two agreed to meet behind Metro at Michigan Apartments in the 1900 block of South Conway Road.

A police agency in Volusia County is investigating today after blasting caps were found in a dresser drawer inside someone's home. The explosive devices were found in house at 17 Wildwood Drive in Edgewater, a city in southeast Volusia County. Details about how the caps were found were not immediately released. Police went to the house at 10:30 a.m. after getting a call from the fire department. "Edgewater Fire Marshall Jeff Lariscy located what appeared to be blasting caps in a dresser drawer inside of the residence," police said in a report.